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William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 – June 12, 1878) was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post.Born in Massachusetts, he started his career as a lawyer but showed an interest in poetry early in his life.
"A Forest Hymn" is an 1824 poem written by William Cullen Bryant, [1] which has been called one of Bryant's best poems, [2] and "one of the best nature poems of that age". [3] It was first published in Boston in the United States Literary Gazette along with several other poems written by Bryant.
The Prairie: A Tale (1827) is a novel by James Fenimore Cooper, the third novel written by him featuring Natty Bumppo. His fictitious frontier hero Bumppo is never called by his name, but is instead referred to as "the trapper" or "the old man".
The duck, flying across the sunset, seemed to Bryant as solitary a soul as himself, and he wrote the poem that evening. [4] "To a Waterfowl" was first published in the North American Review in Volume 6, Issue 18, March 1818. [5] It was later published in the collection Poems in 1821. [1]
John Hughes, an employee of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, wrote a review of the book's updated version that was published in The Quarterly Review of Biology in 2007. Hughes wrote that The Prairie Keepers was a "highly engaging account of a graduate research project that provides a wonderful mix of both personal and professional growth ...
The book is a first-person account of a 2-month summer tour in 1846 of the U.S. states of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas. Parkman was 23 at the time. The heart of the book covers the three weeks Parkman spent hunting buffalo with a band of Oglala Sioux.
Mark Cavendish, one of the best road sprinters in cycling history, plans to retire on Sunday after competing in the Tour de France Criterium. The 39-year-old Cavendish broke Eddy Merckx’s long ...
North American Prairie. Lincoln, Neb., Johnsen Pub. CO (1954) Grass country of the Great Plains: Their Nature and Use. Lincoln, Neb., Johnsen Pub. CO with F.W. Albertson (1956) Native vegetation of Nebraska. Lincoln, University OF Nebraska press (1965) Prairie plants and their environment; a fifty-year study in the Midwest.